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sammielouGrog Shop kicks off its annual free weekend tonight
I’m sure the holidays have drained your bank account. At least they have mine. But that’s no excuse to not get your ass to the Grog Shop’s annual free weekend of live music. The weekend’s festivities kick off tonight with hometown punk/indie rockers Signals Midwest as the headliner. Other acts on the bill include Worship This, Cherry … Read more
Featured Band: Chomp
Joe Boyer and Jayson Gerycz have had an interesting year. You probably know them as the guitarist (Boyer) and drummer (Gerycz) of 2012 VIPs Cloud Nothings. Singer/Guitarist Dylan Baldi has been lauded for his transformation from lo-fi garage pop prodigy to fierce rock and roll noisemaker. Baldi recorded with his full band for the first … Read more
Cloud Nothings and Herzog take stage at the Rock Hall
Two great Ohio bands came together in front of a big crowd and under some beautiful weather to kick off this year’s Summer in the City concert series at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who can ask for more? Herzog took the stage unassumingly and immediately started turning some heads. Flawless harmonies, sturdy … Read more
Rock Hall Summer in the City 2012 Kicks Off Next Week
Say what you will about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and it’s choice of inductees, it’s vibe, whatever…but their annual summer concert series is nothing to balk at. Previous years have seen some Nasty Fancy favorites, including Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, Thaddeus Greene and New Bomb Turks. This year, they’re continuing on in … Read more
Rock Hall announces free summer series
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced the lineup for the 2012 Summer in the City Concert Series yesterday, and the free shows in the plaza of Cleveland’s great glass pyramid are boasting a great mix of national buzzworthy bands paired with some of the best local acts. Kudos to the Rock Hall for … Read more
Weapons of Mass Creation
The third annual Weapons of Mass Creation festival is coming up! The festival is being held in the Gordon Arts District on Detroit Avenue, June 8-10. If you haven’t heard of it, the WMC fest is a gathering of musicians, writers, graphic artists and other talented people to educate, perform and have an all-around good … Read more
10 Ohio bands that should be on your radar
Cloud Nothings: Cleveland, Ohio This foursome is making some serious waves in the sea of music these days, or rather, Lake Erie. Hailing from Cleveland, Cloud Nothings have put lo-fi garage rock back on music lovers’ radar. And if they’re not a band you’ve been following, I want to make sure you are now. Even if it’s just … Read more
Podcast #2 – John Ryan Manning, Cloud Nothings music video director
Becoming a journalist wasn’t my first career choice, but I went with it thinking maybe one day I can write about music. And because I won the spelling bee one time, so I figured this was my calling. Totally kidding. The only thing standing in the way of my dream of becoming a music journalist was that I came from a suburban town where … Read more
Watch the video for Cloud Nothings’ “No Future/No Past”
If you frequent any major or Northeast Ohio music blogs/websites, you’re likely aware that the new Cloud Nothings album, Attack on Memory drops today. If you’re still waiting to hear it, let me put your mind at ease: it lives up to its hype, and then some. Amid the flurry of news and reviews surrounding … Read more
Stream the new Cloud Nothings album
Northeast Ohio natives Cloud Nothings recently hunkered down in a Chicago studio with notorious curmudgeon and engineer Steve Albini. The result, Attack on Memory, is more polished than previous Cloud Nothings releases, but certainly isn’t lacking in intensity. The album starts off with two songs, clocking in at over 13 minutes total, that have enough … Read more
